BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

BMI is still commonly used to assess obesity even though research has shown it's not necessarily a reliable metric. A new study proposes doctors instead use technology that can measure body fat. Body ...

Thanks to the ever-improving world of fitness trackers and apps, you've never had more access to personal health data. But which of the dizzying number of markers and metrics should you really be ...

What’s the circumference of your neck? No idea? That’s fair enough – but according to some experts, it might be worth getting to know your neck size. That’s because it could be a better indicator of ...

Many enjoy a fitness "bulking phase" in the winter season. Getting in the gym and lifting more is a great way to spend the year's colder months. However, gaining weight can go wrong, and you find you ...

An unpublished conference abstract presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Vienna looks at the association between Body Mass Index and mortality. Dr Baptiste Leurent, ...

Discover the Hume Health Body Pod — a smart body composition analyzer that tracks body fat, skeletal muscle, hydration, and visceral fat through multi-frequency BIA. Explore how HumeHealth Body Pod ...